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"The Truth" by Caedmon's Call
album "Intimate Portrait"
Words and music by Derek Webb
Copyright 1997 Cumbee Road Music ASCAP
Tabbed by Tad G. 3:10 am 6/9/00
Tad2Much@yahoo.com
I think this is reasonably accurate, but that's just me. It's a duet, but only in a few places, so I'm sure you could figure out a way to play it solo, if you wanted to.
020033 Em7 x30033 C2
320033 G x00232 D
e-|----------------------------|-----------------------------|
b-|--3----3--------------------|----3------3-----------------|
g-|--0-------------------0-----|----0------0------0----------|
d-|-----------2----0h2---0h2-0-|------------------0----------|
a-|----------------3-----------|-----------------------------|
e-|----0-----------------------|-3----3-----3-----3---2------|
C2
e-|---------------------------|-(2ND GUITAR)-{0h2-2-2h3------3}-|
b-|----3----------------------|----3---3----{3---3-3--------3}-|
g-|----0----0----------0------|----0---0----{2---2-2--------0}-|
d-|---------------0h2--0h2-0--|-------------{---------------0}-|
a-|---------------3-----------|-------------{---------------3}-|
e-|-0-------------------------|-3----3-----3-----3---2---------|
(2ND guitar hold C2) C2
e-|--------------------------|-(2ND GUITAR)-{0h2-0h3-0h2-----3}-|
b-|---3----------------------|----3---3----{3---3---3-------3}-|
g-|---0----------------0-----|----0---0----{2---2---2-------0}-|
d-|---------2----0h2---0h2--0|------------------------------0}-|
a-|--------------3-----------|------------------------------3}-|
e-|-0------------------------|-3----3---3----3----2------------|
2nd guitar plays
Em7 C G D Em7 C G
I've been putting on and putting off too many people
D Em7 C2 G
And I'm getting old to live like an injured man
D Em7 C G D D D Em7 C
Ailment unfilled prescription, like the nose on my face
G D Em7 C G
Like a broken boat, a safety raft, love for the water
D Em7 C G D
I just can't decide to sink or swim, it's me or them
Em7 C G D Em7 C
Should I save myself or go back for the others
G Em7 C D C2
Cuz maybe there's no gray and I was wrong to tell 'em so
G Em7 C2 D C2 C2 C2
And maybe all that I've to do was done a long time ago
G C2
There was life before my life
Em7 D C2
There was provision before my need
G Em7
There was redemption before my sin
D C2
For the sake of the world I thank the Lord
C2 D G
That the truth's not contingent on me
Em7 C G D Em7 C2 G
I've been dressing up and dressing down for too many people
D Em7 C G D
And I'm a little young to live like a troubled boy, a troubled soul
Em7 C2 G D Em7 C
A fish out of water, cuz we're all just the same
G D Em7 C2 G
We're all just as good and just as bad and just as distracted
D Em7 C G D
By the corners of our eyes as our fathers were, and theirs before
Em7 C2 G D Em7 C
And all those before them, and still I glance around
G Em7 C2 D C2
And with the way I stare you'd think I'm seeing through a two-by-four
G Em7 C2 D C2
And with the way I walk you'd think I'd never seen grace before
(1st guitar)
I've been putting up and putting down too many things
D D D Em7 C G
I know nothing about, but I'm jealous of
D Em7 C2 G D D D Em7 C
Holding pride as tight as I can like she was my only daughter
e-|----------------------------|
b-|---3------3-----------------|
g-|---0------0------0----------|
Em7(hold) C(hold) d-|-----------------0----------|
a-|----------------------------|
e-|3----3-----3-----3---2------|
(come in on) D D D C2
e-|--------------------------|-(2ND GUITAR)-----{2-2-2------3}-|
b-|----3---------------------|----3--3---------{3-2-2------3}-|
g-|----0----0----------0-----|----0--0---------{2-2-2------0}-|
d-|--------------0h2---0h2--0|-----------------------------0}-|
a-|---------------3----------|-----------------------------3}-|
e-|-0------------------------|3-----3-----3---3----2----------|
C2 D G
Cuz the truth's not contingent on me